Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Douglas Southall Freeman, the noted Southern historian: "There were two abolitionist movements, the Civil War movement and Mrs. Roosevelt's movement to abolish segregation. The South is too much influenced in its treatment of the dividual Negro by the ignorance of the mass But the North is too much misled the ability of a few conspicuous Negroes. Mrs. Roosevelt has been hopelessly misled because she has seen only the best. The South is going to keep the line drawn between civil rights and social privilege. Civil rights should be recognized; social privilege is a matter of individuals...
...Committee for Wallace is like-wise concentrating their campaign on one issue--Waltor O'Brien's campaign to defeat Congressman Christian A. Herter '15. This movement gets under way Thursday night with a rally at which Professor F. O. Matthiessen and O'Brien will speak. Later they plan to undertake "an educational campaign to liberalize the Harvard campus," at which time they will reemphasize a program of rallies and song-fests...
...starting point "for improving social practices" the Gimo proclaimed a new movement-"industriousness and austerity for national reconstruction." "This movement," said the Gimo, echoing his racket-busting son, Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20), "is a revolutionary social movement . . . Its mission is to check the tendency to extremes of wealth and poverty. Eventually life at the front will move downward to the soldiers' level and life in the rear to the common people's level...
...Youth Army" audience Chiang declared: "It does not matter if pork and perfume disappear from the markets. So long as the people are not starved to death, it does not matter if all the department stores and big restaurants are closed . . . Our new economic policy is a socialistic revolutionary movement...
Years ago Flaherty said: "I try to make my films a revelation of a country, and of the people who live in it ... There is a kernel of greatness in all peoples . . . it is up to the film maker to find the one incident, or even the one movement that makes it clear...